August 2013 Blog Posts (8)

Most every great and enduring movie story — consider the AFI’s top 100 or the 300-plus that Roger Ebert listed as The Great Movies — communicates some “point” or “lesson” to be considered. And typically a story won’t have any meaning OR endure at all without at least one such!!

In the old days, directors were contract players, so they were directing nearly every day of their career. But in today’s freelance film and video world, most directors aren’t shooting more than once every two or three months. As a result, many directors don’t understand how to act on a set or how to lead. Here’s five things that have made an important difference for me on a film set or in a TV studio:

Here are some of the ways my mobile helps me deepen my spiritual roots. How do you use yours?

1.Listen to the Word of God. In this order, I most often use the Biblica's "The Bible Experience" that I added to my iTunes list, Faith Comes By Hearing's "Bible.is" app, and YouVersion's audio (I'm just not a big fan of…

We had a great Story Seminar on July 30 at the American Church in Paris with 25 participants from five countries (UK, Spain, France, Switzerland, US). We learned a great deal about the art and structure of story as it applies to ministry and content creation. Here is a …

Real Battle Ministries is an educational community that offers information, research, support and practical help for parents and children on the issues of video gaming and Internet overuse and addiction.

Shawn Woolley had many friends and an active social life. You’d often find Shawn trying to make people laugh. He enjoyed interacting with people, and he…